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New article online: 40-foot inflatable missile protest
A former U.S. nuclear submarine captain was arrested along with others at a naval base in Washington state in a commemorative protest of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The center piece of the protest was a full scale inflatable Trident II (D-5) missile.
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Geez publisher knocks consumer Christianity, speaks at college
This past week Geez publisher Aiden Enns attended You’re Richer When You Think, an interdisciplinary studies conference on economics and faith at King’s University College as a keynote speaker.
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Wab Kinew on the Strombo show
Hip-hop artist and CBC radio producer and host Wab Kinew outlines five things he believes Canadians need to stop saying about First Nations peoples.
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Privileged? We need to talk
Invitation to the community forum on privilege, Sunday, January 15, 2012, at 4:30 p.m.at Exchange Community Church, 75 Albert Street (2nd floor) in Winnipeg.
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Church leaders join peasant fight against Italian energy company in rural Guatemala
Mennonite development worker Tobias Roberts was invited to serve as an international observer at high-stakes negotiations between indigenous leaders in the highlands of Guatemala and an Italian energy company building a hydro-electric dam in the area. He reports on the situation.
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Church leaders buy plane tickets to fight climate change
A Winnipeg Free Press reporter called me to solicit my comment on the fact that two Canadian church leaders are at the Durban climate conference. Here’s what I told her, and some of what I didn’t tell her.
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Request from Zondervan
After publicizing Zondervan’s connection to disgraced media tycoon Rupert Murdoch earlier this year – Murdoch’s NewsCorp owns Zondervan – I was surprised to receive a recent request from Zondervan to write a back-cover endorsement for a book they will be releasing soon. I felt conflicted.
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Winnipeg event: Myth of the Rebel Consumer
Author Joseph Heath is speaking in Winnipeg
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G20 summit protects some, not others
Another guest post from Geez correspondents at the G20 Summit in France, by Chris Derksen-Hiebert
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Day 1 at the G20 summit
Geez correspondents report on Day 1 at the G20 summit in France.
